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Episode 17 - Moon Logic and Ashens May 29, 2024

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PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp talk to Stuart Ashen (Ashens, of YouTube fame,) about moon logic and weird, unfair, bizarre, beautiful adventure game puzzles. Also, Matt played Lil' Guardsman.

Ashens' talk on moon logic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7nk_Apf35A

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

The Adventures of Mad Dog Williams in the Dungeons of Diridion
Kings Quest 6
Heaven's Dawn
Baldur's Gate 3
Aladdin
Lil' Guardsman
Papers Please
Disco Elysium
Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
Monkey Island II
Operation: Stealth
Chrono Quest II
Police Quest 1
Runaway: A Road AdventureA
Discworld
Codename: ICEMAN
Lone Eagle: Columbian Encounter
Police Quest IV: Open Season
Kings Quest 5
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards

Episode 16 - Animal Well, The Quarry, Stardew Valley, etcetera May 22, 2024

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We went into this one with NO PLAN, folks. It's free-style nerding today on the old podcast. Matt played some cool games and finally hit up that Stardew Valley update. Roses talks about Home of the Underdogs and some of retro games we really didn't enjoy. Plus, some ranting about game preservation.

Flashpoint: Infinity: https://flashpointarchive.org/downloads/

ScummVM: https://www.scummvm.org/

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Discussed:

Norco
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Eagle Eye Mysteries
Citizen Sleeper
Stardew Valley
The Quarry
Animal Well
King's Quest
Monkey Island
Touche: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
The Gene Machine
Orion Burger
Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb
Runaway
Vortex Point
The Room: Tribute
Jurassic Park: The Ride - Online Adventure

Episode 15 - Disco Elysium, The Thaumaturge, and Francisco González May 15, 2024

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Special guest Francisco González stops by and tells us a wild story about his new role playing hobby. Matt thinks Indika is weird and incredible. We talk for over an hour about how great Disco Elysium is, and then like 15 minutes about The Thaumaturge.

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

Rosewater
Grand Theft Auto Online
Indika
Disco Elysium
Planescape: Torment
The Thaumaturge
Lamplight City

Episode 14 - Q&A: Pollen Count Edition May 08, 2024

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Roses falls in love with Disco Elysium and Matt goes frickin' ham discussing Marvel Midnight Suns. We take a ton of audience questions and discuss a variety of topics. Text Adventures, games that we hated after we loved but thought we'd hate, "That doesn't work!", genre distinctions in games, "The Power of Cheese", and an EXHAUSTIVE dissection of Detective Games.

Michael's amazing fan art: https://imgur.com/a/KnLj7Wg

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

Disco Elysium
Midnight Marvel Suns
Breath of the Wild
Majora’s Mask
Siberia
A Space for the Unbound
The Last Door
The Legend of Skye
Contradiction
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus
The Cat Lady
Burnhouse Lane
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Softporn Adventure
Portal & Portal II
Sanitarium
The Monkey Island Games
The Dig
The Invincible
Chants of Sennaar
Strange Horticulture
Papers, Please
What Remains of Edith Finch
Kathy Rain
Mixed Up Fairy Tales
Journey Man Project 3
The Laura Bow Games
Return of the Obra Dinn
Case of the Golden Idol
Paradise Killer
The Sexy Brutale
LA Noir
The D'avekki Studios Games

(btw these are relatively in order, but it's unlikely we'll ever go through the exhaustive work of putting timestamps on our YouTube videos, so... sorry about that. BUT if ya'll wanna do it in the comments, we'll shout you out on the show)

Thanks for listening!

Episode 13 - Streaming Narrative Games and Cressup May 01, 2024

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The charming and insightful Cressup joins Matt and PushingUpRoses to talk about the ethics and complexities of streaming narrative games. We talk about the finger puzzle in Monkey Island 2 a lot, a weird Greek FMV game, the creeping date range of “retro games” and just have a blast.

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

Grim Fandango
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
Nick Delios - Conspiracies
Phantasmagoria
Black Dhalia
Kings Quest 8
Escape From Monkey Island
Quest for Glory
Curse of Monkey Island
Harold Halibut
Assemble With Care
Eastshade
Exit 8
Shinkansen 0
That Dragon, CancerGet
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Dead by Daylight
At Dead of Night
As Dusk Falls
Please Touch the Artwork 2
Cult of the Lamb
Jackbox Party Pack
King of the Castle
Five Dates
Clue
Nancy Drew

Episode 12 - Return to Monkey Island Apr 24, 2024

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The album of the year is finally out, and let us be the first to tell you that T.S. did NOT disappoint with her newest release, 3D MARIO. Best Nintendo-themed, 3-D album yet.

We did not play Harold Halibut yet, but Matt did play an Adventure/RPG set in 1905 Poland and Roses played with her cat. We talk about Return to Monkey Island so much that we get kind of emotional?

We also forgot to mention that we are part of the Adventure Game Hotspot Network, which you can find here: https://adventuregamehotspot.com/

Email Us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

Harold Halibut
Police Quest
The Thaumaturge
Disco Elysium
Quest For Glory
Return to Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
The Curse of Monkey Island
Escape from Monkey Island
Tales from Monkey Island

Episode 11 – The Last Door Apr 17, 2024

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In our LONGEST EPISODE YET Roses and Matt take on the monumental task of summarizing all of The Last Door. All 2 seasons. All 8 chapters. We also talk about Roses' birthday, April's amazing adventure game releases, BREAKING GOLDEN BACHELOR NEWS, kneecap tattoos, and an annoying podcast Matt listened to.

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

Botany Manor
Strange Horticulture
The Legend of Skye
Monkey Island II
The Last Door

Episode 10 - Pizza! and Hidden Object Games Apr 10, 2024

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IT'S OUR TENTH EPISODIVERSARY! Thank you all for sticking with us. To celebrate, Matt and Roses buy each other pizza and talk about their not-so-guilty pleasure: HIDDEN OBJECT GAMES!

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

HoliznaCC0's Bandcamp: https://holiznacc0.bandcamp.com/

Pizza pix: https://imgur.com/a/VAbPgiN

Games Mentioned:

My Brother Rabbit
The Legend of Skye
The Family Mysteries Trilogy
Poisonous Promises
Echoes of Tomorrow
Noir Chronicles: City of Crime
Path to Sin: Greed
Enigmatis (Series)
Hidden Folks
The Exit 8
Murder, She Wrote (The Game)
House MD (The Game)
CSI (The Game)
Law and Order (The Game)
June’s Journey
Unsolved

THANK YOU ALL FOR RATING/REVIEWING/LISTENING/EMAILING/SHARING/BEING AWESOME.

Episode 9 - Audience Recommendations! Apr 03, 2024

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Matt and Roses review some of the games YOU, THE PEOPLE recommended to us! Also, Matt can't stop playing Marvel: Midnight Suns, and the new Stardew Valley update is out!

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Every Folk Song episode on The Two Sisters: http://everyfolksong.libsyn.com/8-the-twa-sisters

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